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When the 19-year-old, Pouria
Nourmohammadi Mehrdad, failed to arrive in Frankfurt, his mother
reportedly called Malaysian authorities to help identify him.

"We are in contact with his mother,"
Khalid Abu Bakar, the inspector general of the Malaysian police, said
at a news conference on Tuesday, adding that Mehrdad was "not
likely to be a member of a terrorist group."

Later on Tuesday, Interpol Secretary
General Ronald Noble identified the other person using a stolen
passport as Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, who was ticketed to fly to Copenhagen from Beijing.

"The more info we get about missing
jet, the more we're inclined to conclude it's not terrorism," Noble
said, according to CNN.

Noble said both men flew to Kuala Lumpur using their Iranian passports before using the stolen Austrian and Italian passports to board the Malaysian Airlines flight to Beijing.